How we scored it
Pressed juice: water, sugars, organic acids and anthocyanin pigments, all plant-derived (n=1). 1.00.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.
Where it comes from
Dominant feedstock is acai palm fruit pressed to juice and filtered or concentrated. No synthetic route exists.
In plain English
Juice pressed from the acai palm (Euterpe oleracea), usually from its dark purple berries, grown in the Amazon region. In products it is used for skin conditioning. It is obtained by pressing the fruit and filtering, without chemical synthesis.
CosIng definition: Euterpe Oleracea Juice is the juice expressed from the whole plant, Euterpe oleracea, Arecaceae
References
- 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
- 2EUTERPE OLERACEA JUICE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
- 3EUTERPE OLERACEA JUICE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=EUTERPE%20OLERACEA%20JUICE